Event #42: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship Day 1 | 2017 World Series of Poker

Event #42: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship

Day 1 Completed

06-22-2017 02:36 UTC-7

Grayson Ramage Leads After Day 1 of Event #42

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Day 1 of Event #42: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship is in the books after 10 one-hour levels. About 129 players remain from the 332 that registered today. Fifty players will make the money, cashing for at least $15,091, but they all have their sights set on the first-place prize of $775,923 and the World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

Bagging the chip lead was Grayson Ramage (527,700). Having amassed a stack early in the day, Ramage was on top of the counts for the final four levels without ever really being challenged for the chip lead. Second in chips is bracelet winner Sam Stein (364,500), then William Stevenson (355,100), and he is followed by two-time bracelet winner Cliff Josephy (330,300).

Other big stacks include Ryan Leng (298,400), Goran Mandic (258,800), Rainer Kempe (254,400), Matt Berkey (253,000), Kristen Bicknell (239,400) and Olivier Busquet (201,400).

Defending champion Martin Kozlov failed to make it through the day as he ran into aces full against Matt O’Donnell. Some other notables who failed to survive were multiple bracelet winners Daniel Negreanu, Paul Volpe, Antonio Esfandiari, Shaun Deeb, Upeshka De Silva, Doug Polk and Jason Mercier.

Play resumes Thursday at 2 p.m. and the PokerNews team will be on hand to provide live updates on all of the action.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Brasilia	708	1	Joe Kuether	United States	109,500	55
Brasilia	708	2	Jonathan Cohen	Canada	58,100	29
Brasilia	708	3	Scott Eskenazi	United States	56,600	28
Brasilia	708	4	Sam Trickett	United Kingdom	122,000	61
Brasilia	708	5	Brock Parker	United States	175,700	88
Brasilia	708	6	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	40,800	20

Brasilia	709	1	Petr Bartagov	Russia	108,000	54
Brasilia	709	2	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	133,000	67
Brasilia	709	3	Greg Merson	United States	147,700	74
Brasilia	709	4	Layne Flack	United States	210,700	105
Brasilia	709	5	Ross Mallor	United States	100,100	50
Brasilia	709	6	Charlie Carrel	United Kingdom	197,700	99

Brasilia	710	1	Paul Dlugozima	United States	95,000	48
Brasilia	710	2	Mosley Dominique	United States	42,400	21
Brasilia	710	3	Roy Upshaw	United States	194,500	97
Brasilia	710	4	Cliff Josephy	United States	330,300	165
Brasilia	710	5	Sam Stein	United States	364,500	182
Brasilia	710	6	David Malka	United States	155,200	78

Brasilia	711	1	Rafael Moraes	Brazil	43,400	22
Brasilia	711	2	Quan Zhou	China	156,600	78
Brasilia	711	4	Taylor von Kriegenbergh	United States	131,900	66
Brasilia	711	5	Venkat Chivukula	United States	232,400	116
Brasilia	711	6	Ben Tollerene	United States	146,200	73

Brasilia	712	1	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	50,400	25
Brasilia	712	2	Chi Zhang	United Kingdom	142,400	71
Brasilia	712	3	Matt Glantz	United States	66,900	33
Brasilia	712	4	Steven Arsnes	Norway	84,900	42
Brasilia	712	5	Nick Schulman	United States	118,900	59
Brasilia	712	6	Fabian Quoss	Germany	107,300	54

Brasilia	713	1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	64,400	32
Brasilia	713	2	Jesse Martin	United States	109,300	55
Brasilia	713	3	Christian Harder	United States	68,400	34
Brasilia	713	4	Mohsin Charania	United States	246,900	123
Brasilia	713	5	Elio Fox	United States	149,000	75
Brasilia	713	6	Oliver Weis	Germany	124,100	62

Brasilia	714	1	Dietrich Fast	Austria	18,000	9
Brasilia	714	2	Chris Ferguson	United States	25,000	13
Brasilia	714	3	Ran Ilani	Israel	129,600	65
Brasilia	714	4	Jonathan Duhamel	Canada	133,800	67
Brasilia	714	5	Joshua Beckley	United States	138,600	69
Brasilia	714	6	Lyle Randall Vincent	United States	159,400	80

Brasilia	715	1	Anatoly Filatov	United States	125,000	63
Brasilia	715	2	Dario Sammartino	Italy	109,500	55
Brasilia	715	3	Goran Mandic	Croatia	258,500	129
Brasilia	715	4	Jason Les	United States	30,300	15
Brasilia	715	5	Shannon Shorr	United States	36,100	18
Brasilia	715	6	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	110,500	55

Brasilia	716	1	Eric Wasserson	United States	99,000	50
Brasilia	716	2	Timothy Adams	Canada	146,100	73
Brasilia	716	3	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	136,700	68
Brasilia	716	4	Sean Getzwiller	United States	88,600	44
Brasilia	716	5	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	134,400	67
Brasilia	716	6	Georgios Sotiropoulos	Greece	160,500	80

Brasilia	717	1	Anton Astapau	Latvia	104,100	52
Brasilia	717	2	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	131,900	66
Brasilia	717	3	Christian Rudolph	Germany	53,600	27
Brasilia	717	4	Jacob Powers	United States	230,000	115
Brasilia	717	5	Andrew Lichtenberger	United States	214,100	107
Brasilia	717	6	Noah Schwartz	United States	59,500	30

Brasilia	718	1	Mike Gorodinsky	United States	124,900	62
Brasilia	718	2	Calvin Lee	South Korea	51,800	26
Brasilia	718	3	[Removed:414]	Malta	134,800	67
Brasilia	718	4	John Andress	United States	185,000	93
Brasilia	718	5	Romain Lewis	France	199,100	100
Brasilia	718	6	John Racener	United States	99,300	50

Brasilia	719	1	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	239,400	120
Brasilia	719	2	Patrick Leonard	United Kingdom	68,000	34
Brasilia	719	3	Chris Klodnicki	United States	131,200	66
Brasilia	719	4	Andreas Olympios	United Kingdom	143,600	72
Brasilia	719	5	Chang Luo	China	49,500	25
Brasilia	719	6	Matt Berkey	United States	253,000	127

Brasilia	720	1	David Sandhu	Canada	37,100	19
Brasilia	720	2	Charles Furey	United States	91,900	46
Brasilia	720	3	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	161,200	81
Brasilia	720	4	Rainer Kempe	Germany	254,400	127
Brasilia	720	5	Bertrand Grospellier	France	157,300	79
Brasilia	720	6	Adrien Allain	France	88,000	44

Brasilia	721	1	Jonathan Concepcion	Spain	155,000	78
Brasilia	721	2	Dan Smith	United States	50,300	25
Brasilia	721	3	Phil Hellmuth	United States	60,000	30
Brasilia	721	4	Sorel Mizzi	Canada	64,500	32
Brasilia	721	5	Albert Daher	Lebanon	152,200	76
Brasilia	721	6	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	228,300	114

Brasilia	722	1	James Obst	Australia	105,300	53
Brasilia	722	2	Tony Gregg	United States	72,500	36
Brasilia	722	3	Robert Heidorn	Germany	42,700	21
Brasilia	722	4	Joseph Elpayaa	United States	194,700	97
Brasilia	722	5	Chris George	United States	40,900	20
Brasilia	722	6	Mike Watson	Canada	99,600	50

Brasilia	723	1	Phong Nguyen	United States	162,000	81
Brasilia	723	2	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	80,000	40
Brasilia	723	3	Daniel Rudd	United Kingdom	133,300	67
Brasilia	723	4	Mian Wei	United Kingdom	138,200	69
Brasilia	723	5	Michael Mizrachi	United States	35,800	18
Brasilia	723	6	Amit Makhija	United States	160,900	80

Brasilia	724	1	Bobby Oboodi	United States	138,600	69
Brasilia	724	2	Jeff Gross	United States	39,100	20
Brasilia	724	3	William Stevenson	United States	355,100	178
Brasilia	724	4	Shyam Srinivasan	Canada	56,500	28
Brasilia	724	5	Bartlomiej Machon	Poland	108,100	54
Brasilia	724	6	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	147,000	74

Brasilia	725	1	Isaac Baron	United States	108,600	54
Brasilia	725	2	Jonathan Jaffe	United States	69,900	35
Brasilia	725	3	Chris Hunichen	United States	161,600	81
Brasilia	725	4	Tommy Chen	United States	65,000	33
Brasilia	725	5	Phillip McAllister	United Kingdom	157,100	79
Brasilia	725	6	Josh Arieh	United States	24,700	12

Brasilia	726	1	Matt O'Donnell	United States	245,600	123
Brasilia	726	2	Michael Telker	United States	87,500	44
Brasilia	726	3	Brian Green	United States	151,600	76
Brasilia	726	4	Zhaoxing Wang	United States	39,000	20
Brasilia	726	5	Levan Karamanishvili	Georgia	39,000	20
Brasilia	726	6	Scott Mayfield	United States	165,300	83

Brasilia	727	1	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	73,300	37
Brasilia	727	2	Ben Yu	United States	149,300	75
Brasilia	727	3	Jason Mcconnon	United Kingdom	82,700	41
Brasilia	727	4	Scott Horowitz	United States	135,700	68
Brasilia	727	5	Grayson Ramage	United States	527,700	264
Brasilia	727	6	Steve Sung	United States	34,800	17

Brasilia	728	1	Xixiang Luo	China	238,700	119
Brasilia	728	2	Ankush Mandavia	United States	35,600	18
Brasilia	728	3	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	70,000	35
Brasilia	728	4	Cary Katz	United States	134,000	67
Brasilia	728	6	Olivier Busquet	United States	201,400	101

Brasilia	729	2	Ivan Deyra	France	132,500	66
Brasilia	729	3	Connor Drinan	United States	81,100	41
Brasilia	729	4	Ryan Leng	United States	298,400	149
Brasilia	729	5	Adrien Delmas	France	200,200	100
Brasilia	729	6	Jack Duong	United States	56,000	28

Tags: Grayson Ramage

06-22-2017 02:27 UTC-7

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Mickey Doft

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Grayson Ramage	527,700	7,700
Sam Stein	364,500	6,500
William Stevenson	355,100	355,100
Cliff Josephy	330,300	85,300
Ryan Leng	298,400	254,400
Goran Mandic	258,500	258,500
Rainer Kempe	254,400	24,400
Matt Berkey	253,000	33,000
Mohsin Charania	246,900	-13,100
Matt O'Donnell	245,600	120,600
Kristen Bicknell	239,400	20,400
Xixiang Luo	238,700	238,700
Venkat Chivukula	232,400	232,400
Jacob Powers	230,000	230,000
Marton Czuczor	228,300	228,300
Andrew Lichtenberger	214,100	124,100
Layne Flack	210,700	5,700
Olivier Busquet	201,400	36,400
Adrien Delmas	200,200	200,200
Romain Lewis	199,100	199,100
Charlie Carrel	197,700	49,700
Joseph Elpayaa	194,700	70,700
Roy Upshaw	194,500	194,500
John Andress	185,000	128,000
Brock Parker	175,700	5,700

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06-22-2017 02:10 UTC-7

Three More Hands

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

The floor has just announced that the players will be playing three more hands and then the day will be over.

06-22-2017 02:08 UTC-7

Bicknell Takes Down Loosli

Mickey Doft

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Following a flop of , Kristen Bicknell check-raised to 11,000 from the big blind and Sylvain Loosli (the post flop bettor in the hijack) called.

The turn was the and Bicknell bet about 60,000. Loosli called all in for about 37,000 with for a pair of aces, while Bicknell had many outs with .

The river was the , giving Bicknell an eight-high straight to eliminate Loosli.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kristen Bicknell	219,000	55,000
Sylvain Loosli	Busted

Tags: Kristen Bicknell Sylvain Loosli

06-22-2017 02:01 UTC-7

A Few More Chip Counts

Mickey Doft

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Greg Merson	145,000	80,000
Jonathan Duhamel	135,000	101,000
Anthony Gregg	120,000
Sam Grafton	100,000	40,000
Timothy Adams	95,000	-13,000
Joe Kuether	72,000
Sergio Aido	Busted

06-22-2017 01:51 UTC-7

Ramage Extends His Lead

Mickey Doft

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Following the turn of a board with roughly 35,000 in the pot, Grayson Ramage bet 23,000 from the hijack. The player in the cutoff called and David Kitai folded from the button.

The river was the , Ramage bet 52,000, and his opponent called after some time in the tank.

Ramage tabled for an ace-high flush, his opponent slammed the table as he mucked, and Ramage won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Grayson Ramage	520,000	85,000

06-22-2017 01:48 UTC-7

Chip Counts

Mickey Doft

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohsin Charania	260,000	132,000
Cliff Josephy	245,000	85,000
Kristen Bicknell	164,000	-6,000
Ben Tollerene	155,000	155,000
Davidi Kitai	140,000	40,000
Mike Gorodinsky	123,000	79,000
James Obst	96,000	46,000
Ankush Mandavia	85,000	35,000
Steven Iglesias	70,000	8,000
John Racener	27,000	-23,000
Jason Mercier	Busted
Cate Hall	Busted

06-22-2017 01:34 UTC-7

Stein Takes From Carrel

Mickey Doft

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Picking up the action after the river of a board with roughly 105,000 in the middle, Charlie Carrel checked from the small blind and Sam Stein bet 62,000 from the big blind.

Carrel tanked for a bit before he called, but mucked when Stein showed for two pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Stein	358,000	113,000
Charlie Carrel	148,000	-62,000

Tags: Charlie Carrel Sam Stein

06-22-2017 01:28 UTC-7

Rainer Kempe Building Stacks

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Hand 1:

We got to the table to see on the board and Rainer Kempe, in the big blind, all-in. The player in the cutoff position was taking his time to make a decision as Kempe had him covered but ended up calling. Kempe showed for a full house and the other player got up and walked away as he was out.